YOU WILL FIND: Reactions and commentary on movies I have seen, including "spoiler" references (because otherwise it wouldn't be much more than "mm, ug, liked it" or "argh, didn't like it") YOU WILL NOT FIND: Detail by detail summaries (because it's not the present purpose of this blog) READ. COMMENT. ENJOY. THANKS FOR VISITING.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
"All That Heaven Allows" (1955)
Rock Hudson. Challenges 50s ideas. Set in it's own present day. Good visual symbolic/symbolic inclusions . Tie ins to Thoreau's Walden. Netflix description also clued into the use of "expressionistic colors"--yep. Early parts of the movie used Chopin preludes--a nice ambiguous, melancholy mirror to what was going on. No Chopin in the middle and later parts of the movie. And the mill/house? I want live in that. Some obvious but clear use of lighting--the darkly lit scene in the conversation between mother and son, for example.
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